Aargghh

So, today the world decided it would be fun to frustrate me. It was one of those days where you wake up and decide to run a lot of errands, make a lot of phone calls, and stop procrastinating about things you've been meaning to do.

And then, nothing seems to go according to plan. First, I decided to order some photos on line from wal-mart. Then, I was told that I couldn't order them since I live in Canada. And, the canadian website wasn't working. So, I drive all the way out to Wal-mart in DC only to be told that they aren't printing any photos today, for "reasons beyond their control".

So, I decide to go to the library and get my library card, only to find out that I need a reference name and number of someone in Dawson Creek, and I'd forgotten to get one. Not to mention that I don't know anyone yet. So, no to that one.

I also need to find a doctor and was told there weren't any female docs in town. After searching the yellow pages, I discover that there are 2 in town. I call both, and to my intense surprise neither are taking patients. I try to find a chiropractor because I hurt my back and shoulder again, and am told I can't get in till the 5th of september because as a new patient, I need an hour long appointment. Does it matter that I can barely move? No.

So, I decide to go try the physiotherapy clinic, and thankfully I got an appointment there, although it turns out that for some reason Mike is listed as being single by the RCMP and I'm not on his medical coverage. Yipee. So, Mike asks me to bring some papers to the detachment so that he can fax them to MSP and get things straightened out. He says, make sure you come before 4:15, or the office door will be locked. I arrive at 4:05 and the door is locked. Mike doesn't come out, no one will let me in, and then it starts to rain. I, of course, had left my jacket at home and was in a tank and shorts. After standing in the rain for a while, I decide to leave, and just as I was pulling out, saw the secretary leaving, and managed to flag her down and give her the papers for mike.

Now I'm home, and decided to try the wal-mart photo site again, to discover that it is now working, only when I upload the photos from my CD, and go to order them, they look all glitchy and blurry on the order form, although on my camera and on my CD they look great. So, now I'm back to square one. No pictures, no way of sending out the photo of Mike and I at his grad to our friends and family. Although, to be honest, of the 500 photos I had people take of us, not one of them is the photo I wanted. Why is it so hard for people to take a full length photo? I don't know, but I just remember the whole day of his grad, I kept asking people to take a picture of us, and of course the only one I like is the one where he's not wearing his red serge. And to think Mike kept saying we had taken too many pictures and didn't need anymore. Why couldn't I just have gotten that one picture? Arggg...maybe I will go back to good old film cameras. Actually, the problem is that I don't have my own camera anymore, so I have to rely on other people to get me copies, or put them on a disk, and then I never end up getting them developed. Well, no more of that. I'm going to buy my own camera and that's it.

Okay, that's the end of my rant. For now. I'm sure I'll probably stub my toe on my way into the living room once I'm done writing this.